Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1891 | Rothesay | J. Cory & Sons |
Captured and torpedoed by the German submarine U-32 (Kurt Hartwig), 30 miles south-west of the Bishop Rock, on March 5th, 1916. The ship was on a voyage from Seville to Troon with a cargo of iron ore. No lives were lost.
This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.